Cam I Am

You don’t have to very far back in my posts to learn that I recently got an iPhone. While I have had it for a little more than a couple weeks, I’ve had many opportunities to check it out.

First of all, I’m generally very happy with it. A co-worker just got a new HTC phone and isn’t very happy with it. That being said, I do have a few issues with this phone and new OS.

First of all, I’m very disappointed that there is no voice dialling available (especially with Bluetooth) unless you get the 3GS. It’s a feature that I will adjust to not having, but it is something that I would expect. The keyboard rotating and cut and paste options are definately nice to have, but I am noticing a lag/delay/temporary freezing occuring since the upgrade of OS. I can only assume that will be corrected in revisions of 3.0 in the near future, along with app software programmers tweaking their apps to work better with it as well.

In addition to this, it would be nice to create folders in the mail program. I understand that if I use IMAP it will sync everything over, including folders, but I seem to be reading 99% of my emails through the phone now..

That’s about it though. It’s much easier to type on a qwerty keyboard instead of a numerical keypad. And having the Internet available in the palm of my hand is really nice.

Today was the best Father’s Day I’ve had yet…

The day started off with me getting to sleep in; an amazing way to start off the day. After getting up, my wife immediately poured me a coffee with Bailey’s. Score!!!!

Once I had fully woken up, the kids and my wife gave me their cards and gifts. Afterwards, we went out for breakfast at IHOP and then on to the highly anticipated activity of the day. We were all going fishing.

Now, it’s important to understand one fact: I have never gone fishing before in my life. Yes, I know it’s hard to believe that at the age of 34, that I have never been. The only time I have done something remotely like fishing was for about 5 minutes, back when I was in Boy Scouts at a camp in the Haliburton area, and that was with a fishing rod that had no bait, and I’m fairly certain the lake had nothing but minnows.

So, we drove out to Mission to Sun Valley Trout Park where they have a small pond stocked with… well, trout of course! My wife had heard of this place on the TV show “The 100 Mile Diet“, and she thought that this would be something that would be fun to do for Father’s Day. With our brand new fishing rods in hand (that we had purchased earlier this week), we started setting the kids up. Fortunately, my wife used to go fishing a fair bit when she was a kid, so she showed me and the kids what to do. We set up our middle daughters’ rod first and let her get started. She cast out once, and within about 3 minutes, she had caught one! We still hadn’t finished setting up the other two kids rods and she had caught one! We helped her out, and then got our youngest daughter set up. Five minutes later, she caught one! Once we had helped her, we got my oldest daughter ready and then me.

After about a half hour, I caught my very first fish!

I have to admit, I was very happy! My oldest daughter was determined to catch one. Sadly, after another two hours, she still hadn’t caught one and was ready to call it quits.

After we left the park, we came home. Thanks to the power of the Internet and YouTube, I learned how to clean and cook trout. I’m happy to say that dinner turned out very well, considering it was swimming around less than 6 hours prior.

That was how I spent my Father’s Day! It’s always nice to spend time with my family and this day always makes me think on how I can be an even better dad.

About three weeks ago, we logged our 13th find. It was a new cache (we were the second people to sign the log) and we decided that we would deploy one of the two Canada geocoins that we had recently purchased and registered. We placed it and then logged that we had dropped it in that location.

Three other people have logged finds for that cache since we’ve been there. The first one left a generic TFTC, the second TNLN, and the third was logged a week ago and says that there is no sign of the geocoin in the cache.

So, my question is this… Do I try and find out what happened to the coin? Do I just write it off as lost?

I know that this is bound to happen eventually. People either don’t know what to to with them and keep them, or just don’t care and take them. Since this is our first coin deployment and it seems to have disappeared from the very cache that we placed it in, it’s kind of soured me on placing anymore. We had set a goal of it making it to Oshawa, Ontario. That seems unlikely now…

It’s been two weeks since it’s been identified as missing. Since we are still new at geocaching, what do I do?

This past weekend, we adopted a new family member!

We adopted him from the Maple Ridge BC SPCA on Saturday.  He was a stray, so the name that the shelter gave him was Charlie.  We’d like to change his name, but the kids seem attached to his current name!

And that was my weekend!!